Emanuele Viscuso
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'Emanuele Viscuso, (born 24 December 1952 in Palermo, Italy) is a sculptor, a musician, a designer and a cultural promoter. His most famous piece is the 45 feet large sculpture "Wave-bridge on the imaginary" located at the Milan Malpensa international airport. On 2006 Viscuso created in Miami the Sicilian Film Festival, a showcase of Sicilian directors and movies.
Emanuele Viscuso has taken part to the Esperia* STS-120/10A Mission, lauched on 23 October 2007 from the NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre, in Florida as delegate in Florida of Accademia Italiana della Cucina, a Cultural Institution of the Italian Republic. Thanks to his proposal and support, onboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, Node 2 - the interconnecting unit developed in Italy by Thales Alenia Space - and the ESA, the Italian Paolo Nespoli and other austronauts started their journey towards the International Space Station (ISS) bringing with them delicious Italian food to offer to the other astronauts on the Station in orbit. Thanks to the importance of Accademia Italiana della Cucina this can be considered the first Space Convivium in the history.
The city of Miami Beach, where he resides since November 2000, recognized his cultural involvement in the community with the "Key to the City" on October 17th 2007.
